#affiliate verse; 616; good people are like candles they burn themselves up to give others light (crisispider / thefleetsfinest)

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AFFILIATE VERSE / Into the Mel-verse if you are feeling groovy

set in a heavily canon divergent 616 timeline w/ spiderverse movies worked in / some of this like the leonard stuff is canon across all verses @thefleetsfinest / @crisispider / @hopeburns

anyways, here's a bunch of headcanons and notes that i have for what i have developed with MEL MY BELOVED BESTIE; and if it's chill, i will probably default to this verse being my main / primary. so if you're groovy, i'd like to write in this verse.

💜💙 freefall happens a little differently, in that linda and clint never dated, but they are friends mostly because linda is dating @thefleetsfinest and leonard adopted a stray alcoholic (clint) that is how that is going

💜💙 linda and clint still attend the gala together, or more linda runs into clint at the f.e.a.s.t. charity thing (leonard is probably in attendance too / linda still calls tony small dick energy and then kisses her doctor boyfriend) and both are squinty eyes at him the entire time

💜💙 Clint is actually injured going to Linda's clinic when Spiderman and Captain America confront him, and Linda still goes to defend him; partly because she will not have that happening right outside of her clinic. it definitely one of the leading causes where she wants some space from clint

💜💙 Clint still brings Bryce to Linda's apartment, and Bryce dies, and that's why Clint gets banned from her apartment. Linda calls Leonard to help with clean up, and Leonard helps Clint in the direct aftermath

💜 He goes to Leonard all injured after The Hood, and than he decides to go sober with the help of Leonard

💜💙 clint is still currently banned from linda's apartment, but she has mostly forgiven him for covering his ass and the whole dying kid in her house; it's fine he is leonard's friend, she can forgive him over time

💜 leonard mccoy is clint's aa sponsor, across all open verses, when post freefall happens; clint's living on leonard's couch as he gets sober and starts to put his life back together, there may have been some snuggling involved, because when you are sad and pitiful, sometimes being held is nice and lenny is a good friend.

💙 Clint and Leonard tend to go to aa meetings in Brooklyn, but if ever needed they have popped into the usual place that Tony and Carol end up. The first time that happened was so awkward for Clint.

💜 The first four people, on Clint's long list of amends and apologies, is to Kate, Bucky, Natasha, and Peter Parker.

💜 Now let's get on to talking Peter Parker ( @crisispider ). After apologizing to Peter, the two had always been friends over the years, but they become closer friend again. Clint is surprisingly there as Peter is going through the details of a divorce, or co-parenting, and being a single dad.

💜 Clint is roughly one year sober, and only doing small investigative, vigilante/hero work, not always directly in NYC (legal troubles), and that is when Luke has become Mayor (tbh i do not know the timeline between 2020 to 2022/23 comics well) when he gets the offer about the Thunderbolts, he is not at all sure about it and still has major issues with this

💜 Clint and Peter have been becoming closer friends, since Clint apologized, and it's once Clint has joined the Thunderbolts, that is when Clint and Peter start to flirt a little more, and one thing leads to another, that leads to feelings and a relationship. Clint's been a Thunderbolt for the city for some time now, in a relationship with Peter for some time. About a year probably.

💜 Peter and part-time Mayday move in with Clint at some point down the line, making the Spiderman and little Bug mainstays in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. The neighbors at Bed-Stuy absolutely love Peter B. Parker, and he's a big help at fixing things and making thee apartment labeling make sense

💜 Clint and MJ are buds, pals, friends; he loves her. The Barton-Parker-Watson family is so good and wholesome. Kate Bishop is also a part of that, DUH, Peter gets Kate in Clint's will. Kate and Peter have such a funny friendship.

💜 Eventually, Clint does get back in good graces with the Avengers, and even returns to the Avengers in the time of emergencies. He can be both a TB and an Avenger sometimes as a treat.

💜 Clint's even visited Spider-society once, because Peter vouched really had for a bring-your-boyfriend to work day.

💜 Clint's best friend, outside of his other best friends. His non-superhero friend if he has to be specific is Leonard, he loves harassing his doctor, needs him as his sponsor. has become more of brother to him than barney is, and is his best friend. they just get each other. and he swears if leonard gets hurt.

💜 Leonard makes Clint cry more than he'd care to admit to, like when Leonard and the Mccoy family adopt Clint as their own, and treat him like family. It makes him cry and stop he knows it's okay to cry Peter, he's till crying though and its ugly. He also just loves Leonard a lot.

💙 Linda and Leonard start dating before Freefall takes place exact timeline uncertain. this happens after Leonard wises up. She cares a lot about him, and was just giving him space to adjust to moving to New York and involving himself in superhero lives. They are so close with each other, and really it was a matter of time.

💙 The Night Nurse Network is a thing, with Linda's clinic being a whole location, and she's got her rolodex of associates. She's got help now, she's not the only doctor/physician acting as more than half of NYC's hero population's pcp and emergency doctor. She has @thefleetsfinest and @hopeburns (when she's not in space) who both can be ran into and seen around the clinic, as well most importantly, everyone's favorite waiting room buddy, Leonard's corgi Luna. there's three doctors/nurses are the night nurse clinic now.

💙 As Clint would put it, the crush era between Linda and Leonard was unbearable (and since clint was drinking at the time / he drank to that) as Leonard would deny any time he got jealous that Linda was trying to date and get out there. Linda absolutely hated that time, as most dates were just not interesting or went poorly, and she did not really want to be "getting out there", plus Leonard was right there and really they were both unbearable and oblivious to each other's interest in the other!

💙 Linda always ends up back at the clinic after her dates (the one time with the lizard girl), and most of that she ends up hanging out with Leonard after all her dates, cause he's more interesting (and the ideal guy)

💙 Linda's friends include Jessica Drew (and Carol by extension), Stephen Strange (they get coffee, he's a pest once he knows about leonard too absolutely awful), Laelynn (by extension her girlfriend Luce), and Leonard (by extension clint and peter are around a too), and than there is Danny and Luke as well.

💙 Speaking of Jessica Drew, Linda absolutely adores babysitting Gerry when given the chance. To add to that, she starts watching Mayday Parker as well which she really doesn't mind, because of Leonard doing a favor for @crisispider and Clint.

💜🧡 Clint and Peter watch Greer's kid William sometimes, which naturally Clint is like "Oh my pal leonard can watch him too" which sorry Leonard you didn't like those curtains did you anyways. So Greer has Clint or lets Clint's friend Leonard watch William.

💙💜 So Linda and Leonard babysit, just as Clint and Peter will baby sit all the super kids they know.

💙 Linda was more nervous about Leonard meeting her mother, than about meeting the Mccoys or Leonard meeting the rest of her family. This is mostly because of the fact that her mother was unpredictable in how her opinion could be swayed. It wouldn't change anything, but it'd be preferrable if she was Leonard-favorable.

💛 Wasps and spiders may be natural enemies (which may not be true), but Nadia has said she has arguably warmed up to @crisispider but like Miles is still the cooler Spiderman

❤️ Luce (i know i need to add her) is absolute buds with @crisispider it happens mostly because she quips back to at least half of Spiderman's jokes with quotes in specific voice, and they usually grab a bite after a tough day of heroing. That and they get the whole secret identity.

❤️ Luce is Newark's vigilante, but she'll end up wherever a lead will take her which is more often than not over the water to NYC. She tries to avoid being in Manhattan, minus the Night Nurse clinic which is currently in Manhattan, because every superhero and his mom defends Manhattan. She'll go defend Staten Island if she has to over Manhattan (that's a joke she'll kick names and take ass anywhere, wait a minute)

❤️ LUCE ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT PROVE LEGAL ADVICE ! She knows why are asking @crisispider so go pester a lawyer! She is just a paralegal, and it's in her opinion that like hawkeye should not.

FUTURE PLANS AND EVENTS

💜 THE WURM -> don't worry about :) -> it's not a cosmic threat :) -> all in your minds :) -> it's my blog, so of course, this would happen in a meddium length hawkeye run :)

💜 A few relapses for Clint, superhero shit is tough but he always gets back on and it never lasts long. his sobriety lasts longer.

💜 Oh about that Wurm ;) The avengers are clint's team :) oh and Clint plus the team save the day :) so you think :) and things are fine until the Wurm comes back to eat Clint I mean what :)

💙 Linda has to relocate the clinic, which actually ends up being more upsetting than she'll care to admit. It happen, it's happened before, she's always moved when needed. This time it's more because Danny Rand had bought the last building to remove rent as an issue for her. She knows it was a give back thank you gift, these things happen, it is still absolutely a stressful and massive plan when she moves her clinic out of the Lower East Side. She tries to find a place near the same area and still in Manhattan, but rent is a bitch. She manages to find a place in Turtle Bay, between 2nd and 3rd.

💜 Clint and Peter get married ! There is going to be a wedding. The proposal? Has not been worked out. But there is, of course it's gonna end up a big thing, spiderman and hawkey are big heroes!

💜 Clint's best man is . . . complicated. It ends up being co-best man Kate and Leonard. He had to narrow down groomspeople to a limit number of four. Figuring out who is. . . . still tough.

💙 The meeting of the Carters and Mccoys was something, which to date may be the most stressed that Linda has ever been to date. It goes well, mostly.

💙 Linda and Leonard will get married too, and Linda wants it family and friends, and keep it small and quiet. As much as it can be when there are already a few superheroes who have to be on the list ( stephen plus clint and peter)

💜 Clint is Leonard's best man for his wedding with Linda. IT IS VERY EMOTIONAL. and Clint's speech is great (awful)

💙 linda's dress is a little decade inspired, just below the knee in leg, with some umpf to the skirt, off the shoulders or at least neck bare, good for dancing, very simple. the more exciting part of this is really the lace she is wearing underneath.

💜 Peter is gonna have a second kid with Clint. They are gonna be girl dads time two.

and just. so much more. so much. i love this affiliate verse. so much. also like. peter has the whole of spider society stuff. going on. and clint can't even wrap his head around some of it.

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Surgery had never terrified her before; technically, it did not scare her now. She had been a surgical nurse to general practitioner, surgery was not the issue. There is always vaguely been the thought in the back of her head, it feels like it sits at the base of her skull when someone came in with the need for a major surgery, life-saving surgery. She was, after all, a small private clinic and surgery was not something she would saw they were equipped for (despite having an operating room prepared now).

It was not for lack of experience, it was not for lack of tools. It was because it had been just Linda over the years and now she's got unpaid or underpaid surgeon and a nurse, and they did too much already. It's because the more she does things like that, the bigger this gets, the clinic gets and that was dangerous for one thing and because it wasn't a fully functional hospital. It was a last resort on the best of days and worst of days.

Now she had become a primary care physician because there's shortage of those, of doctors in general, and superheroes or people with powers, non-humans were out of luck when it came to the healthcare system, got the short end of the stick. They needed people to care for them, to do their routine check ups, answer their questions, or at least try to.

NEEDING TO DO SURGERY ⸻ was a big risk, and she quite literally held someone's life in her hands. She had a team, but she didn't have a team like a hospital would. No emergency equipment or extra blood, or additional personnel if needed. It was just her and Leonard, which thank god he was a surgeon. An ex-surgical nurse and a surgeon, it's a good team. Sometimes, the only team for people who can't have their face known, who can't go to a hospital and risk arrest.

It didn't feel like it was enough. They held their fingers on someone's pulse today, made the cut and opened them. One mistake, and that was too much that she would deal with as aftermath. So Linda simply did not think of that, but of the trust laid in her. It was a long surgery, and once she's told one of New York's night life patrollers what to do after an operation like this, and when to come in to for her to check up on their healing. It was just her and Leonard.

She knows they helped someone, knows what worrying would get get her. However, it doesn't always feel like its enough. Surgery scared Linda Carter today because of that feeling. The process of cleaning is started, table and equipment first and than her hands. Scrubbing off the day's work and quietly hoping no one needs her at least for the next few hours. A lull in need and emergency, that no one was getting hurt.

The Night Nurse goes off into her head as she cleans, as she works at sanitizing and sterilizing, the room and than herself. Rubbing at her arms a little roughly, rolling her wrists, and going through rotes in her head. That taking on more like this wasn't going backfire, she was enough, that she didn't need to be more than she was, that she got into medicine because she wanted to help people, and loved it. . . .

An awareness of where Leonard was is lost to her as he looks down at her hands, scrubs at her fingers with a brush. Goes a little harder with her nails, more on habit than concern anything broke her gloves and got through. THAT IS HER BODY'S INSTINCT KICKS IN. Feeling heat and presence behind her, than there's a draft ⸺ not a draft, but a breath blowing at her spot of her neck that is bare.

A tingle runs over her spine, Linda catches herself inhaling OVER HIM. Anticipation of what was next, knowing what this feeling was and what was coming. His breath at her neck, his closeness. THERE HE WAS. She had lost him, for a moment in the room, and she couldn't have done this without him.

There was time that she could, and that's not to say she's worse now; she could do it alone again but trying to give as much as she could to the super community. A medical team was needed to give people the best. Medicine was not a solo effort, EVER. She didn't want to do it alone, and now especially without him.

His hands are damp, dare she say, still wet that'll leave spots on her scrubs where his hands land. ANTICIPATION. She is still waiting and than ⸻ his lips do press to her skin, now she exhale out. Make her soft sounds (ones always for him), tired and in her head little breath, as Leonard lingers. She need that, feeling her heart aflutter just a little, as he does and focuses on the air coming through his nostril, light like a breeze or draft, at a point upon here neck.

Linda's head cants ever so slightly to the side opposite to give him, his lips, and head room to reside there. A SMILE TO HERSELF, her lips parting like she wants to talk, like she'll say something like HEY YOU, or maybe something softer and sweeter. Nothing comes out, and maybe it was okay to melt back.

She pulls her hands from the sink, doesn't bother drying them and goes to secure his arms around her body. KEEP HIM THERE. Anchor herself with him, and just breath. Let herself do that, keep doing that and breathing. Stay as long as she liked, until someone needed help; until eventually they should finish cleaning up.

His lips on her neck, oh that was a thrill she had not known she had been lacking, some quiet need that her body didn't know about until he was here. Already wrapped around her, arms which she wants tight. Take her respite like this, and she lets out almost a quiet suddenly aware neither has broken the silence as his lips kept at her neck.

There was no rush, but it was inevitable. She did not want to stay in this room forever, at least specific room; in his arms, yes, she had debated and agreed on forever as a concept in his arms. A room that smelt like antiseptic intentionally? No. They finish cleaning, and make their way back to the little lobby and oh, thank god, it's empty so she can kiss him, and look at him. Tired and achy because that had been long and it went well.

Green eyes look at him with a plead before her lips even part to speak, debate on her lips if they call the time and close the clinic doors and go get food, or go home and there was food at home (at least in one of their fridges). If they were sticking around, then the plea was for him to order them something please.

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It had been one HELL of a surgery, and an EXCRUCIATING long one at that. Leonard's entire spine, and absolutely EVERY joint he had were aching but that didn't stop him from slipping up behind Linda (who had just been INNOCENTLY scrubbing down her hands, minding her business even.) and wrapping his still damp arms around her waist. Leonard's head dipping down (despite his spine's disapproval) and pressing the a kiss to the base of Linda's NECK.

Leonard LINGERED there, his eyes slipping closed as he could feel the STEADY & STRONG beat of her pulse under his lips. There wasn't any need to fill the silence with words, instead content to just HOLD her close in his arms. She fit so PERFECTLY right there pressed against his chest, wrapped up in his arms, it was as if he had been made to HOLD her close.

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@crisispider rolled a 3 and got a Greer, except wait that's not Greer, on MUSE ROULETTE

❝ Momma says you are bad at peopling what's that and why? ❞ Five year olds say the darnest things.

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❛ i haven't eaten yet. ❜ / clint

Oh, so this was how they were going to bond. Really, it made sense it would be Clint's fourth language after all. Food was a way to communicate or to bond in any like. The archer sighs, because Peter had been wanting him to get to know his friends more, to familiarize himself with Spider Society. ❝ You wanna grab food, or I can even cook something. Quick and easy ⸻ you should eat, big guy. ❞ And while he had given him the option he figures that cooking would be maximum bonding. ❝ What do you like, I'm pretty good at making most things. So I can cook, I think our fridge is stocked. ❞

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@crisispider -> [ continued ]

« Be nice to the old man » He wasn't even going to deny that comment at the moment. All day he has been running into teenagers, being harassed by teenagers, and do not get him started on the young heroes text groups he was (he know they were in their twenties but they all may be nine years old to him). So he felt very old today. He may as well accept his title with pride. TOMORROW HE WON'T BE.

He was looking forward to when superheroes in full could move back into New York, like the avengers and the dozens of other super teams and they could deal with whatever goon of the week for once. That' not to say that superheroes weren't operating here. Spiderman still was, and that's one of those blind eye moments. He has a lot of those. AND A LOT OF BUSY TIME.

Clint leans into Peter's head, relaxing his shoulders and oh, he would like to melt. He was probably going to do that after he scrounged around for whatever easy food there was going to be. OH, SHOWER TOO. He should do that if they were having a deal together.

« We feeding the pigeons too? » His intention being a joke, « People watching makes us sound old. » Okay, he would complain about being old. They weren't old, but they did like to people watch as an activity. « Perfect date. » It was their go-to for dates, and he wouldn't complain that they gotten boring. Predictable. They needed that.

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He could try to pretend that he was offended, but in his defense the bed felt really good last week after he had embarrassingly pulled a muscle chasing Mayday around. God, if that didn't remind him that he is years away from being old. Years away, and it was embarrassing to call Leonard because his step-kid was on the ceiling and he was laid out on the floor 'cause his back spasmed. So he was taking up the whole bed and Peter could suffer for the week.

MHMM NOPE ⸻ ❝ OH? Who says that you could say NOPE? ❞ He asks, trying to say NOPE in the same lax way that Peter had said it as he got up out of bed to follow Clint into their bathroom.

However, he won't be complaining about his partner being out of bed if it means that he'll get to touch Peter and find himself all close to him. The archer starts to strip down, expecting to mostly find bruises on his body because he always told everyone that he was like fruit. It's mostly a joke, but he would love to be hit less.

Clint is not going to be ashamed of the whiny sound he makes when he's finally pulled under the spray of the hot shower. He lurches forward, going to nose at the side of Peter's face than kiss. ❝ See, 'm mostly okay, just a crappy day. ❞

"Only about as much as you tried to take me out last week when you pushed me out of the bed Mr. Starfish.." he grumbled, though it was all playful and teasing.

"Mhmm NOPE" There was absolutely NO WAY that Peter was ever going to just go back to bed, not until he was sure that Clint was cleaned off and that it all really was just SOMEONE ELSE'S blood all over him.

"Yeah baby of course, you really think I am gonna let you get all SOAPY without me?" besides the idea of HOT water on his aching body sounded down right AMAZING. Fully on his feet, he made his way over to the bathroom and turning on the light.

"C'mon slowpoke, lets get you looked over."

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@crisispider -> [ continued ]

It was just going to be a day today, like any other day. That's what Bobbi told him, and they talked. He couldn't tell what she was really feeling, if maybe she was moved on or if she was like him. He couldn't tell if she was telling him things because Clint held on to things.

A decade or something later, he was still holding on to old thing like his grief with John Walker or that maybe he missed his brother Barney too, still angry at him for abandoning him and dying and coming back and trying to kill him.

He was still holding on to this, a date in the year picked out. October 12th, realistically he knows if they had him it could have been any day this week. Clint just liked having something to hold onto, no matter how small it was. Today was just going to be a day.

Clint turns off the faucet, as he finishes cleaning up the plates from their breakfast that they had together. Mayday's already out of the house, he misses her and it dawns on him that maybe she's the way today of all day's feel a little more. YOU CAN HAVE THIS, CLINT.

There was sunlight that had been coming through the windows, reaching the kitchen. He had noticed that as he had started on washing the dishes, and it's a good day. They should go out, take the dog, enjoy the day off. Clint looks on to Peter, cants his head to the side watching the way his boyfriend's face contorts in thought.

He's a dork, and it makes him huff, ❝ You goober, holding hands is part of the unspoken deal that I just spoke about ⸻ damn! ❞ Doesn't bother drying his hands as he turns to put them on his hips. ❝ Yeah, a walk on a nice day. It'd be good, y'know, I should enjoy the day. WE should enjoy the day, and I'm sure Lucky won't be complaining about greasy street food. ❞

Clint kisses Peter slowly, before they pull away to put on their shoes, maybe change that shirt (definitely change), and get Lucky's leash (just in case). Clint doesn't walk Lucky with a leash much anymore, dog was trained with him enough. They nod their head to the few that greet them and Lucky. The archer holding out his hand for the other to talk. ❝ You pick the direction, 'm just along for the ride. ❞

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more clint verses + notes

if we ship, and you want a verse mention i'll add ya :)

affiliate verse // 616 // good people are like candles they burn themselves up to give others light (crisispider / thefleetsfine / hopeburns) // entangled to a loser like me (crisispider)

616 verses in which Clint is always in a relationship with @/crisispider

same notes as 616

always open to interacting in this verse as clint loves his peter b parker and wants to tell people

Clint and Peter live together in Bed Stuy

They just got engaged

Clint is the bonus stepdad to Mayday Parker

Clint and MJ hang out sometimes

Eventually Clint and Peter'll be adopting a baby Ashley too after they get married

Wurm :))

Peter follows events of the Spider-verse films so that's all canon

actually read this post goes into extreme detail on the Affiliate Verse

616 au // how can i watch you fade (crisispider)

a blindspot inspired au

clint's going blind and not enjoying it

clint's sorry he breaks peter's hearts all the time

616 divergent // ship verse with @/biitchcakes // how many more chances can i have with you (biitchcakes)

open for interacting in this verse

after their first break up due to clint's infidelity as seen in 2012 fraction's

Clint and Jessica would get together again shortly after working together in Secret Avengers (2014)

They would take their next big break, after a heavily canon divergent Civil War 2; Clint still kills Bruce and goes on trial. They kind of break-up / take a break, cause that was one of his girlfriend's best friends

Post Civil War 2, Clint tours America, drinking often and trying to right wrongs with Red Wolf via vigilante justice; while he does this he does call Jessica here and there, sometimes drunk and guilty

Eventually, he returns to New York with a few revelations, and one of them comes at recognizing an alarming relationship with alcohol ; while he back in New York, he asks Jessica and a local superhero doctor Leonard Mccoy (had to sneak him in okay) to help him with sobriety

Kate calls Clint from LA to ask him for his help with something, which leads to Clint deciding while he was in LA to move there and to take the next big chance. ASK JESSICA OUT AGAIN. Now just that, but skip a few steps and ask her to move out to LA with him. She says yes.

Kate's WCA happens, and Clint and Jessica have their own west coast superhero business; they adopt a runaway Beverley Hills kitty cat whose name is Leftovers or LT, they've got a place together, and quite some time

The next "break" that Clint and Jessica take is when they move back to New York, during the time of Devil's Reign and Mayor Fisk; the events of Freefall, Clint's grudge war with the Hood, and taking up the Ronin mantle leads Clint to relapse and realize that he hasn't exactly buried all his issues

Jessica is there to help him in the aftermath, along with Clint's friends that he manages to not burn bridges with

Clint becoming a T-Bolt under Luke Cage, is what leads to round 4 at a relationship with Jessica Drew, and gosh they got Lucky and Leftovers (their two "kids") he should maybe do something about a relationship upgrade with Jessica right?

LEFTOVERS IS CLINT'S SECOND FUR-SON and his favorite cat in the world, Leftovers is also just as much as a Cryptid as his mom JDrew :)) clint has had many a heart attack when these two LOOM over him waiting for food

616 closed // ship w/ @/mr-tony-stark // who shares your burdens (mrtonystark)

a closed 616 verse, inspired by a long running thread (i am getting back to)

where tony stark and clint barton, have a multiple times fling, and tony's the who clint calls at the end of freefall and helps clint with recovery, is his sponsor (and boyfriend) because they are messy

clint and tony are dating, after a 1000 reblogs

tony is raising brandy (that is going well for now)

gonna be exploring tony's relapse

and possibly the tony - emma sham wedding

616 closed // ship w/ @/mr-tony-stark // can we have a chance at this finally (mrtonystark)

a verse where tony and clint adopt an alien baby after her pod reaches earth

vaugely based off our first verse

let the boys be happy

616 closed // ship w/ @/blindbastard // do not hear do not see but know how to feel (blindbastard)

clint and matt !!

centered around hawkeye: freefall

clint knows matt is DD

has to walk the careful dance of not letting his boyfriend know he's ronin

while his boyfriend is actively hunting for ronin

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It's a Tuesday, and the fact that it was a Tuesday was important. Normally weird stuff tended to happen on Monday or a Wednesday, not a Tuesday; or very frustratingly take up all of Saturdays which he would have liked to make Saturdays his date days with his boyfriend. One Peter Parker of whom has taken this shiny new Hawkeye in strides and flaunted him around like he wasn't a severely messed up individual and disgrace to superheroes everywhere. It's a bit of a self-loathing joke which he is working on those, but Clint absolutely thinks he is afforded at two of those a day and this would be his first.

So he was owed that, and on this fine Tuesday he was kitted out in purple. A new suit, calling back to older iterations of the Hawkeye get up when he use to wear the cowl. He had the cowl for this suit, yet he knew he couldn't wear it as per the new laws around the city; as per his contract when he was on official Thunderbolts duty. Clint was and always would be against superhero registration, but Luke had assured him this city sanctioned position wasn't that and he wouldn't be rounding up superheroes. It's all about getting heroes to trust superheroes again.

Things are good, actually he could even say great. The relationship with Peter definitely been a highlight, and the thing he was most anxious about. Clint's got a sure head on his shoulders about a lot of things, or he was getting toward that place again with the items that weren't there yet. He's nervous about Peter, and his involvement in his life. He gets him, he's always gotten him and he's been one of the superheroes who knows his whole dual identity for a long time, years at least. The snag was he's a dad, co-parenting with his ex-wife, and that may be making him more nervous than he has admitted.

He could really fuck this up, or maybe it won't be working out for him. He and Peter already felt like they were moving fast, like things were heading in one direction and going over heels for Peter Parker; and that meant Mayday was going to be in his life and he was really determined not to fuck it up.

It's not often that the people of New York normally stop for Hawkeye anymore, which is fine. At least, it's not like he getting shouted at for all the bad things he's done or being praised for one thing that would haunt him forever. This doesn't seem like that, when he's stopped by a cheery hello. A HUG ⸻ ❝ Well, it's always nice to meet a fan⸺ ❞ He is cut off when she goes right for the hug, and OH ⸻

It's a tight hug, like more than a kid fan excited about a superhero. It's different, and then he pulls a reluctant arm around her and that is when the crying starts. OH GOD FUCK, WHAT DID HE DO? When she pulls away, he's looking with concern and he's about to ask, is going to ask, as the girl apologizes wipes at her tears.

❝ What's ⸺ do you need help? ❞ He's a hero, a good guy, and he could do something. He was Clint Barton, and Hawkeye; he helped people and if someone hugged him than cried that is signs to help, of someone in need and he could do that. ❝ I could help. ❞ CAN THIS JUST BE OUR LITTLE SECRET? ⸻ ❝ 'Kay, as you're alright, kid than this can be our secret. ❞ Clint's still worried for the young woman, she looks to be somewhere in her twenties and reminds him of Kate.

The curveball comes when she announces her name; tells him her name which get Clint's squeeze to squeeze. BARTON-PARKER ⸻ AS IN? He inhales, and gives her a nervous kind of smile because if this means what he thinks it means and Peter has babbled, rambled on all about the Spider-Society to him. She's the existence of some assurance that at least in one universe he doesn't screw up with Peter.

There was hope for him, maybe he has lucked out to have a family made up of Peter and his daughter. Hopefully in this universe too. ❝ I, uh, know the spider society. You're, uh ⸻ I'm Clint Barton, Hawkeye, but you knew that... Do you, uh, have to jet off like right away? ❞ See Clint has done the whole time travel and multiverse hopping before, so he really doesn't care how this affects things.

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A flash of purple & blond..

It's enough to nearly KNOCK the wind out of her, a miss of a motion and she NEARLY lands herself right into a trash bin instead of swinging on to the next bit of web she had shot out. She manages to save it at the last second, FUMBLING as she manages to skid to a stop on the side of a building, head PEAKING around the corner to get another glance.

She knew deep down that it wasn't him... not really..

Sure he looked EXACTLY like what she remembered, blond hair, strong & tall build, PURPLE.. there was no doubt about it, the man minding his own business down the street was none other than this universes CLINTON FRANCIS BARTON. A ghost in her universe, one that made her heart ache.

God wait till dad sees-...

the thought is immediately shaken away, knowing all to well that no amount of BEGGING wouldn't get her dad to budge, and besides she wasn't entirely sure if her dad could handle seeing another version of the husband he had lost. (Especially since she had looked into the universes file and saw all of the similarities to her own, and the parallels really were SPOOKY. Multi-verse shit. It's weird. )

She isn't quite sure how long she is just STARING at the man from down the street, but she was sure he knew that she was there. Stealth really wasn't her thing, and even then she had memories of her papa being one of the best. ( She can practically hear her father's stories in her head about her dad and his love for pretending he was dumb.)

Mayday had been getting ready to LEAVE, run back to home to her dad and sister.. maybe kick something's ass VIOLENTLY to make her feel better about just how unfair life really was, but.. something stopped her. Instead of leaving she found herself swinging down, landing right in front of the man.

"H-Hi! you don't know me.. but.. Can I give you a hug? I'm giving you a hug anyways, i hope that's okay!" She doesn't give him a chance to answer before she is RUSHING forward and wrapping up the older man into a TIGHT hug. (Only barely reminding herself to not HURT him on accident with her strength.)

Her BRIGHT RED curls are loose and everywhere, covering her face so it was securely hidden in Clint's shoulder under a veil of red. There was no stopping the SOB that almost immediately escaped. (Man is she really glad Ashe isn't here to see this, she never let her live it down.) She was falling apart in a complete stranger's arms all because he looked a little too much like her papa.

"Ah! I'm so sorry!" in a SPLIT SECOND she shot away from him, a few feet safely between them and she is wiping her tears away, putting herself right back together again. "You just..um.. remind me of someone.. and I shouldn't help myself you know?.. Ashe always says I'm too soft- and maybe she is right, maybe i am but well.. can this just be our little secret?" A Parker babble.

"S-sorry-I... " a forced deep breath and a shake of her head that sent a mass of curls FLYING everywhere. "I'm Mayday Barton-Parker of the spider society!" a bounce in her step, all sadness shoved violently away to be felt later. This was a stranger who didn't need to see her FALL apart.

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He owed a big favor to Logan, which he wouldn't complain about why he couldn't follow after where he had seen a bagged Spiderman. However, the tip helped him and he's diverting what he was doing, switching his phone off from notifications from Helen. Shoots a text to the other Thunderbolts to know that he wouldn't be coming around, no need for noise from them. America could take point on any Tbolts business. He likes to give everyone the chance to play team leader when he's not around.

Whoever had managed to sack Spiderman had to have had stupid luck because no way his babe went down easy and Clint's pissed. Definitely going to rain fire down upon the idiots that did it. When he actually sees Peter, and he realizes that when Logan had said Peter that he had meant Peter.

OH ⸻ That really makes situation a whole lot stickier. FUCK Clint grits his teeth, grinds them even as he thinks for a moment. He cuts Peter free swiftly, and he's reaching to touch his thumbs to his partner's cheeks, pulls his hands away as Peter switches them to sign.

Is he concerned about listening devices?

« I will. I will. Promise. Promise. » He signs everything twice, just to reinforce that but Clint still allows himself to be concerned for Peter. « You okay? You okay? » OBVIOUSLY NOT. Now he does go about texting Mary Jane who does text him back right away, so that is good and he really hopes it stays that way.

He turns his phone to face Peter, « S-E-E O-K B-U-G » He fingerspells showing the picture for confirmation, and than he's shooting a text to the Tbolts that someone hang around near where MJ's place is, just to be sure that they stayed okay. That there was not FOR NOW added at the end, but first they needed to sort Peter out. Figure out what the hell happened and how they were going to deal with this.

« Now can I worry about you? »

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STUPID SHOE ⸻ He reaches to take the offending shoe, which his when he discovers it was now belonging to himself. ❝ Pete, you're trying to kill me. ❞ He complains, but he was alright.

Feeling a tad overdramatic, and than h's moving to toss the shoe to a corner and get himself up. His eyes look to Peter, and oh! For a moment, he thinks he too precious, as he is taking two steps towards the bed ready to crawl in.

❝ Go back to sleep ⸻ ❞ He almost reaches the bed when Peter manages to mumble out MHMM SHOWER? ⸻ Oh right, he was covered in blood and he wouldn't want to mess up his sheets.

❝ Oh, yeah, you'll be joining me, right? ❞

Peter had barely been asleep for TWENTY minutes, a long night of crime fighting led to him just COLLAPSING into bed. So when Clint came STUMBLING in he barely woke up enough to turn his head, his groggy brain taking maybe taking a little TOO LONG to fully register what exactly had happened.

"Mhmm goood?" It was more SOUND then WORDS, rolling over and sitting up just a bit in the process. A yawn followed as he ran a hand through down his face before finally REALLY looking at Clint, spotting all the BLOOD.

"Lemme guess, I should see the other guy?" another yawn, followed by a groan as he STRETCHED. "Want me to run..umm.." he forgot the word for a second, he was still VERY MUCH not fully awake. "mhmm shower?"

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Issues with hearing partners, they could hear and wake at the sound of SOUND. Clint's gotten too use to not being quiet when he came in. He doesn't want Petr to freak out at the blood on him. Sure, new boyfriend was a superhero too but still. He's tiptoeing and than he gets distracted and TRIPS ⸻ AND FALLS. It's Peter's shoe's fault. ❝ AHHACK!! ❞

Shhhhhh no awake, ONLY SLEEP.

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❝ A walking disaster? What's that? ⸻ Why's that? ❞ He flips himself, so he's back on his feet and tilts his head curiously at Peter. ❝ I thought you were Spiderman! OH! but shhhhhh that's a secret! ❞ William can't help but ask a million unnecessary questions. ❝ You smell like a people not a disaster. Mom says that usually smells like burning. ❞

"Is that right?" Well that's just rude Greer. But fair. "Well.. I guess she isn't ENTIRELY wrong. It just means.. that I struggle with doing some basic things that people expect of me, I'm what people like to call a WALKING DISASTER."

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